The kids are kind of excited about playing in their old home. The Civic Arena is strictly a basketball facility as opposed to the new multi-purpose facilities. These kids understand about Aberdeen basketball and its history. Some of their parents played in the arena.

I don't think we handled their zone very good. That zone did bother us a little bit. We didn't attack it as aggressive as we would have liked to. It's a learning process.

I'm very proud of our kids, I'm very proud of the effort. Nobody gave us any shot ... We've been talking about Roosevelt and some of the other teams, but I tell you what, my team played with a lot of heart and a lot of character, and I'm very proud of them.

I'm really happy with our ball pressure. Pierre didn't get a lot of good looks. I'm really pleased with the rebounding. Pierre is a good rebounding team and in our last game they dominated the boards.

I'm not going to fault the effort of our kids, they played hard, particularly in the second half. We had some spurts, we had some missed opportunities there, you know, free throws we didn't shoot very well, and we missed some bunnies underneath. Those are things we're going to have to have to be in the win column.

They just didn't give up. We're a good basketball team at the right part of the year. We're playing as hard as we have all season. We're playing as well as we have all season. I'm very happy with the effort of our kids.

It was a great effort. We put so much pressure on the ball. The second half we turned it up. They did it for the seniors.

You take two steps forward and one back.

Defensively, I thought we played extremely hard, I'm very pleased with that.

Our defense didn't cause a lot of turnovers in the first half. But, it caused them problems in the second half. They didn't have a lot of confidence and didn't shoot the ball very well.